Music

**DISCLAIMER**: This is just my opinion as an intermediate pianist, please don’t take any of this too seriously and please feel free to prove me wrong 

1. Intervals! (FYI this will probably not make sense without prior music theory knowledge)
- if you take a major 6th interval chord whatever and make the top note double flat, then it’s a DIMINISHED 6TH?? but there’s a difference between diminished 6th and P5?    like what no this is all wrong what is going on! 
- if you take any interval and make the top a sharp and the bottom a flat it ceases to exist. Hooray. 
- let’s talk about augmented intervals. Dear lord. I can’t. If you take a Perfect 5th, and then put a sharp on top, it becomes an augmented 5th. Okay, all good so far. If you put a double sharp on the top note, guess what? it ceases to exist. Again. Double hooray.
- my ears are telling me that a diminished 6th and a P5 are the same thing, but no no no no we don’t use our ears in MUSIC THEORY they’re very different
- AGH INTERVALS I HATE THEM THEY MAKE NO SENSE

2. Contemporary music! (No prior knowledge needed)
- first things first, we must address the divide between “contemporary music” (think modern music, like Taylor swift, Beatles, etc, basically anything from 1945 onwards) and what I like to call “classical contemporary”. 
- Classical contemporary is the one I dislike
- most pieces I’ve played were dreadfully unmusical and atonal, and classical contemporary does not feature lyrics
- Most pieces that I’ve played are bad and not good and unorganized
- I’m pretty sure most of the composers are the definition of taking themselves too seriously
- if the renaissance was baroque, and impressionism is romantic, and neoclassical or whatever is classical, THEN CONTEMPORARY IS ABSTRACT ART
- dear god they made abstract art into a music form. Very controversial and worth too much money/praise for the amount of effort put in
exhibit A: 4’33” by John cage. 4 and a half minutes of silence and he gets paid to perform this. UNFAIR. IT DOESN’T EVEN SOUND LIKE ANYTHING
exhibit B: One for Violin Solo— play a giver solo then smash the violin you played it on the ground. 1. Why. 2. Waste of violin. 3. That would hurt my soul
- I’m pretty sure I could make a “contemporary piece” by merely banging my head against the wall——oh wait, yoko ono ALREADY PERFORMED THAT IN WALL PIECE FOR ORCHESTRA

anyways my rant is over

A small rant about music theory and contemporary music

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